People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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More Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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